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

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.
For decades those three words were heard billions of times over by anyone who received a message through AOL, a phrase that became synonymous with the dial-up era of the internet. Elwood Edwards ...
Edwards got the opportunity after his wife, who worked at an AOL predecessor, volunteered him for the job. He was paid $200.