"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)" is a 1985 song by singer John Parr that is notable for being a Hot 100 #1.
The song is about Elmo putting out a fire that happened at Sesame Street. He is commended for his bravery despite being a very young, little furry monster, and God himself decides to come back to life and descend onto Sesame Street and declare Elmo a saint, giving him the nickname, "man in motion" because he was quick to act to save the town that day.
In 1985, some dude named John Parr who had no other hits decided to write a song about the incident and go #1 with it. Then everyone forgot about him. The end.
This is what you get for naming a song St. Elmo's Fire. There must be only one Elmo and anyone else named Elmo deserves no further attention because that's stealing Elmo's thunder. Thank you!
The song went #1. It is Elmo's second charting Billboard hit after his collaboration "When the Good Sun Shines" with some dude named Almo, which reached #98 on the Hot 100 in June 1967. Elmo notoriously got pissy at Almo because he wanted to be the main star of his first hit song, but he had to compete with Almo's whining and crying by talking over it.
Similar incidents followed throughout the years following the record in which Elmo tried to cause a ruckus with other musicians because he was pissed that he was not yet famous at the time. In 1969, after Ernie's 1970 song "Rubber Duckie" became a hit, Elmo confronted Ernie and asked if he could get some of that sweet dough. Ernie allegedly declined to give Elmo any money because he was very lonely and miserable, and needed enough to pay his roommate Bert to continue sleeping in his bed and do some fun things with him in the middle of the night. Elmo got really upset about that and decided to secretly help Anita Bryant with her homophobic campaign which took the nation by storm in the 1970s. Later that decade, Elmo sued the group Elmo & Patsy in 1979 for using his name and likeness for a popular Christmas song, "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer", because Elmo did not want anyone else named Elmo to make any popular or comedic songs, and this was a double whammy case. Elmo was NOT having it. However, Blood, Sweat & Tears heard about this and fired back, after realizing upon listening to Elmo's 1967 hit that it sounds quite an awful lot like "Spinning Wheel". This was a highly publicized story in the music industry about how if you don't like someone or their song, you should keep it to yourself and shut the fuck up.
Elmo still rocks, though.