Elwood Edwards, voice of “You’ve Got Mail,” dies

The man who voiced America Online’s famous “You’ve got mail” greeting has died at age 74. Elwood Edwards died Tuesday at his ...
Elwood Edwards, the iconic voice behind AOL's classic "You've Got Mail" slogan, had died at 74, one day before what would ...
Early in the internet era, he was also behind other AOL messages, including “Welcome!” “They said my voice was heard more than 35 million times a day,” he once said.
Edwards got the opportunity after his wife, who worked at an AOL predecessor, volunteered him for the job. He was paid $200.