Elwood Edwards, whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL's email greeting, 'You've Got Mail,' has died, according to his former employer.
Elwood Edwards , whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame for AOL's email greeting, You've Got Mail, has died, according to his former employer. Elwood Edwards , a behind-the-scenes graphics and camera operator at local Cleveland television station WKYC whose voice was propelled to worldwide fame after he recorded AOL's email greeting, 'You've Got Mail,' has died, according to his former employer. He was 74.Any former AOL user can recognize his voice.
"I had no idea it would become what it did, I don't think anybody did," Edwards said in a 2019 interview on podcast "Silent Giants with Corey Cambridge." "Suddenly, AOL took off... I remember standing in line at CompUSA and seeing and thinking, 'my voice is on every one of those, and nobody has a clue.'"
"Every time someone would come to visit at WKYC, he'd introduce himself and they'd recognize him," Macek said. "There was such an association between his voice and AOL for such a long period of time that he became an instant celebrity as a result."
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