At times the concert slightly resembled scenes from another famous outdoor music festival many decades ago with revelers still dancing away in the mud to long list of acts on this year’s bill.

The 2016 promise was for “hits all day” delivered through no less than 12 Australian and New Zealand performers, bringing hits spanning from the 1970s through to the 2000s.

With each act having a 20-minute set to strut their stuff, chart-topping hits were the order of the day, with a total of 50 notched up by closing time.

Wendy Matthews began proceedings, although wasn’t finished with her set as she returned to the stage with Glen Shorrock in the evening – who she started with as a back-up singer in the early 1980s – to perform Carole King’s ‘Going Back’ after he’d finished with his Little River Band material.

Thirsty Merc – a stone’s throw from their hometown of Dubbo – comprised the most recent additions to the set list, with their mid-2000s hits including ‘In the Summertime’, ‘Someday, Someday’, and ‘20 Good Reasons’.

Other performers were willing to acknowledge the way that time has passed, Steve Kilby introduced The Church’s 1981 hit ‘Unguarded Moment’ as “a song from a million years ago” – but that opening guitar riff proved timeless with the reaction it received from the audience.

And Mi-Sex’s Steve Balbi asked the crowd to “join in if your knees are up to it” before launching into ‘Computer Games’.

The Choir Boys’ Mark Gable touched on current affairs though by taking a quick audience poll on Donald Trump – the US presidential candidate didn’t rate well.

Other performers on the bill as the afternoon turned to night included Ross Wilson, Eurogliders, Richard Clapton, 1927, Rose Tattoo, and Gangajang.

The concert finished with an all-star tribute to the last Stevie Wright, with a gangs-all-here performance of ‘Evie’ parts 1, 2 and 3.

More photos from A Day On The Green on Page 17.