For Lovers Only is a 1995
covers/
pop standards album by
The Temptations for the
Motown label, something of a sequel to their 1967 album The Temptations in a Mellow Mood. The album features the final recordings of
Melvin Franklin, who fell ill during recording and died before the album's release. Franklin was replaced on the tracks he does not sing on by
Parliament-Funkadelic's
Ray Davis in his only album appearance with the group. The first single, "Some Enchanted Evening", reached #40 on the Urban Adult Contemporary charts.
The album was also the final Temptations album for
Ali-Ollie Woodson, who would be released from the group by
Otis Williams in 1996, after having suffered several bouts of throat cancer. For Lovers Only was reissued in 2002 with a bonus track, a remix of "Night & Day" as included on the soundtrack to What Women Want.
AllMusic editor Andrew Hamilton found that For Lovers Only was "arguably the Temptations' best album since Truly for You dropped in 1984." He added: "Richard Perry outdid himself with this production, he expertly captured the essence of the Temptations, regardless of the members, in these songs."[1]
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