80's tune conjures grizzly memory

Whenever I hear Huey Lewis singing The Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll, I see a grizzly bear.

He’s got his head up and he’s walking out of the timber toward me.

It was 1984 and I was working construction at the appropriately named Silver Tip Ranch which sits on Slough Creek just north of Yellowstone Park. The main lodge at the ranch was being extensively remodeled. I was building a stone chimney in the kitchen and had taken a break to visit with the carpenters, who were set up in front of the lodge.

They had the volume cranked up on the boom box and about the time I heard Huey sing: “But it’s still tha...