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Elwood Edwards, Voice of AOL’s ‘You’ve Got Mail’ Greeting, Dead at 74
“Good-bye.”
Elwood Edwards, the live booth announcer and voice actor behind AOL.com’s “You’ve got mail” alert, died at his New Bern, North Carolina, home on November 5. She recommended her husband, who provided four phrases, one of which would enter the cultural lexicon and become one of the defining catchphrases of the 1990s internet boom: “Welcome,” “File’s done,” “Good-bye,” and “You’ve got mail!” He recorded these sentences on a cassette deck from the comfort of his own living room. He would lend his instantly recognizable voice to a cameo on The Simpsons(“You’ve got leprosy,” his virtual doctor character tells Homer and Bart in the season 11 episode “Little Big Mom”), and he appeared in a segment on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in 2015 to recite his famous phrase as well as some others (“Uptown Funk,” “Adele Dazeem,” and “Dat ass tho”).
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