{{Short description|Song}} {{Use mdy dates|date=September 2016}} {{Distinguish|Michigan, My Michigan}} {{more citations needed|article|date=May 2009}} {{Infobox anthem |prefix=Regional |country=Michigan |title=My Michigan |image="MY MICHIGAN" Sheet Music Cover page.png |composer=H. O'Reilly Clint |author=Giles Kavanagh |lyrics_date=1933 |music_date=1933 |adopted={{Start date and age|1937}} }} '''"My Michigan"''' is an official song of the state of Michigan.
==History== It was written by Giles Kavanagh (lyrics) and H. O'Reilly Clint (music) in 1933. It was published by Clint's own music publishing company in Detroit. It was formally adopted as an official state song by the Michigan Legislature in 1937 by Concurrent Resolution 17.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mi.gov/documents/hal_mhc_mhm_songhistory_53142_7.pdf|title=History of the Adoption of "My Michigan" as an Official Song of the State of Michigan |publisher=State of Michigan|access-date=January 5, 2012}}</ref>
Despite being an official state anthem, the song is rarely performed and has never been used on formal state occasions.{{cn|date=March 2024}} The state government did not purchase and/or the authors would not sell the copyright.{{cn|date=March 2024}} The song's copyright will expire at the end of 2028, the 95th year after its publication, per the Copyright Term Extension Act.<ref>Renewal is listed in [http://archive.org/stream/catalogofcopyrig3145lib#page/n556/mode/1up Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1960 (Part 5, No. 1)], p. 598.</ref>
There are two versions of the sheet music; one is held at the Rare Book Room at the Library of Michigan and the other is housed at the Bentley Historical Museum.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,4570,7-153-54463_54466_20829-54116--,00.html|title=Michigan State Songs: Michigan's Mystery State Song!|publisher=Michigan Dept of Natural Resources|access-date=January 5, 2012}}</ref>
==References== ;Citations {{reflist}} ;Further reading *{{cite book |editor-last= Fuller |editor-first= George N. |series= Michigan: A Centennial History of the State and Its People |volume= 5 |title= Michigan Biography |location= Chicago |publisher= Lewis Publishing |year= 1939 |pages= 47–49 |chapter= Giles Kavanagh}} *{{cite book |title= Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan |year= 1937 |series= Regular Session |volume= 1 |location= Lansing, MI |publisher= Franklin DeKleine Company}} *{{cite magazine |magazine= M. R. |volume= 447 |title= Presentation of the Portrait of the Honorable John W, Fitzgerald |date= November 10, 1994 |page= 5}} (reference to "My Michigan" song) *{{cite book |editor-last= McNamara |editor-first= Daniel I. |title= The ASCAP Biographical Dictionary of Composers, Authors, and Publishers |url= https://archive.org/details/ascapbiographic195200amer |url-access= registration |location= New York |publisher= Thomas Y. Crowell Company |year= 1952 |pages= [https://archive.org/details/ascapbiographic195200amer/page/88 88–89] |chapter= H. O'Reilly Clint}} {{National anthems of North America}}
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