This morning, I listened to
Eye in the Sky and started thinking about the backing vocals in the choruses of "Step by Step." Specifically, I was wondering about the intervals between the pitches (I think I may have wondered about this before, but I couldn't find any notes I'd written to myself about it). This afternoon, I figured out the melodies, and I discovered that - for one of the voices, at least - those backing vocal phrases are all conjunct melodies. Each pitch is either the same as the preceding pitch or ascends or descends by a second (whole steps and half steps), so the "step by step" in the lyrics is represented musically.
As always, there's the disclaimer that I might be wrong, but I think the melodies are something like this:
The lyrics are:
Step by step
Move a little closer to me
Step by step
One day at a time
Move, move, move
Move a little closer to me
Step by step
