Get the Best of Ray Stevens is a 20-track collection of previously recorded songs by Ray Stevens, released in 1987 by MCA Records. All of the songs featured on the recording had been previously released as singles. The versions of certain songs on this compilation are not original recordings or the most popular versions; "Gitarzan" is the album version that begins with cheering and applauding of an audience; "Harry the Hairy Ape" and "Ahab the Arab" are re-recordings that Stevens made for his album Gitarzan; "Freddie Feelgood (And His Funky Little Five-Piece Band)" is the album version from Gitarzan that contains audience noises; "Furthermore" is a re-recording of Stevens' 1962 song of the same name.