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The person who lent his voice to AOL’s well-known “You’ve Got Mail” notification died on Tuesday.
Elwood Edwards was 74-years-old on the time of his demise, his longtime employer WKYC mentioned Thursday. He had been coping with what the Cleveland-based outlet mentioned was a “long illness.”
Edwards, well-known by AOL customers, lent his voice to the web service supplier for its “You’ve Got Mail” notification some 35 years in the past, in response to WKYC.
UKRAINE – 2021/03/15: On this picture illustration, AOL brand is seen on a smartphone display. (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Photos/LightRocket by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The outlet described him as a “dear friend” and reported he was a “graphics guru, camera operator, and general jack-of-all-trades” throughout his lengthy WKYC tenure.
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He as soon as defined in a video printed by AOL that his 1989 voiceover work for AOL arose from his spouse, Karen, who he mentioned “volunteered my voice” for the “then-upcoming AOL software.”
His recording of “You’ve Got Mail” for AOL occurred “on a cassette deck in my living room,” he mentioned within the AOL video. He additionally did “Welcome,” “Files Done” and “Goodbye” for the service.
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“It started off as a test just to see if it would catch on and, lo and behold, in the mid-90’s it had really caught on. At one point, they said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he mentioned in a separate video printed by Nice Massive Story in 2016.
Pictured: (l-r) Host Jimmy Fallon and Elwood Edwards in the course of the Suggestion Field bit on March 4, 2015 — (Photograph by: Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photos by way of Getty Photos) (Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photos by way of Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
Edwards’ voice grew to become more and more well-known among the many common public alongside AOL. Individuals with AOL Mail can nonetheless hear the “iconic ‘You’ve Got Mail’ alert with the original voice” if they’ve sure settings turned on, in response to an AOL assist web page.
His well-known “You’ve Got Mail” work as soon as led to him taking part in a “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” phase in 2015.
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AOL’s origins date again to the 80s.
