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The person who lent his voice to AOL’s well-known “You’ve Acquired Mail” notification died on Tuesday.
Elwood Edwards was 74-years-old on the time of his dying, his longtime employer WKYC stated Thursday. He had been coping with what the Cleveland-based outlet stated was a “lengthy sickness.”
Edwards, well-known by AOL customers, lent his voice to the net service supplier for its “You’ve Acquired Mail” notification some 35 years in the past, in accordance with WKYC.
UKRAINE – 2021/03/15: On this picture illustration, AOL brand is seen on a smartphone display. (Photograph Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs) (Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Photographs/LightRocket by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
The outlet described him as a “pricey buddy” and reported he was a “graphics guru, digicam operator, and normal jack-of-all-trades” throughout his lengthy WKYC tenure.
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He as soon as defined in a video revealed by AOL that his 1989 voiceover work for AOL arose from his spouse, Karen, who he stated “volunteered my voice” for the “then-upcoming AOL software program.”
His recording of “You’ve Acquired Mail” for AOL occurred “on a cassette deck in my lounge,” he stated within the AOL video. He additionally did “Welcome,” “Recordsdata Finished” and “Goodbye” for the service.
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“It began off as a check simply to see if it could catch on and, lo and behold, within the mid-90’s it had actually caught on. At one level, they stated my voice was heard greater than 35 million instances a day,” he stated in a separate video revealed by Nice Large Story in 2016.
THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON — Episode 0223 — Pictured: (l-r) Host Jimmy Fallon and Elwood Edwards throughout the Suggestion Field bit on March 4, 2015 — (Photograph by: Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs by way of Getty Ima (Douglas Gorenstein/NBCU Photograph Financial institution/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs by way of Getty Photographs / Getty Photographs)
Edwards’ voice turned more and more well-known among the many normal public alongside AOL. Individuals with AOL Mail can nonetheless hear the “iconic ‘You’ve Acquired Mail’ alert with the unique voice” if they’ve sure settings turned on, in accordance with an AOL assist web page.
His well-known “You’ve Acquired Mail” work as soon as led to him collaborating in a “The Tonight Present with Jimmy Fallon” section in 2015.
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AOL’s origins date again to the 80s.
