''Guaranteed'' is

Ronnie Drew Joseph Ronald Drew (16 September 1934 – 16 August 2008) was an Irish singer, folk musician and actor who achieved international fame during a fifty-year career recording with The Dubliners. He is most recognised for his lead vocals on the si ...

's second

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that was released in 1978 and produced by

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, who wrote many of the featured tracks.

Eamonn Campbell Eamonn Campbell (29 November 1946 – 18 October 2017) was an Irish musician who was a member of The Dubliners from 1987 until his death. He was also in the Dubliners when they recorded their 25th anniversary show on '' The Late Late Show'' hos ...

featured both as

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and

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and

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also played on the album. ''Guaranteed'' featured many songs that Drew would later record with

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, as well as tracks he had previously recorded. But there were other tracks featured which cannot be heard anywhere else. Ronnie Drew's spoken passages, extracts from Peter St. John's song "The Mero" and the instrumental "Dublin City Theme" link many of the tracks. In 1998, the album was reissued on CD as "Guaranteed Dubliner". Below is the track listing for the CD, which consists of seventeen tracks. Although the tracks are written as their original eight track format and the others are just untititled tracks, the original LP is split into seventeen tracks to fit on to the CD.

Track listing

# "Dublin City Theme" # "The Mero" # "Hey Johnny McGorry" # "Gas From a Burner" # "Easy and Slow" # "The Second World Song" # "Gunner McGee" # "Peace/And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" # "The Mero-Reprise" # "O'Duffy's Ironsides" # "D'You Remember Jem?" # "Barney Brown" # "Come And Join The British Army" # "The Captains and The Kings" # "Dandelion Market/The Departed Man" # "Danny Farrell" # "The Mero-Finale"

Personnel

*Ronnie Drew - spoken and sung vocals, flamenco guitar *

- guitar, banjo, mandolin, musical director *Des Moore - guitar, classical guitar *John Drummond - fretless bass *Eddie Fury - bodhrán *John Sheahan - whistle, fiddle, mandolin *Paddy Roach - harmonica 1978 albums Ronnie Drew albums {{1970s-folk-album-stub