On a cassette tape in their living room, Edwards and his wife recorded four phrases − "Welcome," "You've Got Mail," "Files Done," and "Goodbye" − in exchange for $200, according to WKYC.

On Tuesday, Elwood Edwards, the voice behind the online service America Online's iconic "You've got mail" greeting, died at age 74, one day before his 75th birthday, according to Cleveland's WKYC ...

He died on Tuesday following "a long illness," according to a report. Elwood Edwards, the voice behind AOL's "You've Got Mail" greeting, has died. He was 74. The iconic figure died on Tuesday ...

Those three little words... EDWARDS: (As AOL email voice) You've got mail. SHAPIRO: ...Meant that a note from a friend, a distant relative, a boyfriend or a girlfriend, was now being delivered ...

Elwood Edwards, the voice of AOL’s iconic “You’ve Got Mail” greeting, has died. Edwards passed away Tuesday, the day before his birthday, following a long illness. He was 74. His death was ...

Elwood Edwards, a broadcast-television veteran who became a friendly and familiar voice of the dot-com era, recording a two-second message — “You’ve got mail” — that greeted millions of ...

Elwood Edwards, a media multihyphenate who voiced AOL’s iconic greeting “You’ve got mail,” has died. Edwards died Tuesday at age 74 in New Bern, N.C., after a long illness, his former ...