CLAREMORE, Okla. – Country singer Garth Brooks told jurors Friday he believed he had a “done deal” to honor his late mother with a women’s health center in his Oklahoma hometown, and said he still doesn’t understand how he received nothing for a $500,000 gift.

Brooks is suing Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon, accusing it and its president of reneging on a pledge to build the center and name it after his mother, Colleen, who died of cancer in 1999. The center was never built, and Brooks wants his money back, plus punitive damages.

In tearful testimony, Brooks said he thought he had a solid agreement with the hospital’s president, James Moore. Brooks said Moore initially suggested putting his mother’s name on an intensive care unit, and when Brooks said that wouldn’t fit her image, Moore suggested a women’s center.

“I jumped all over it,” Brooks told jurors. “It’s my mom. My mom was pregnant as a teenager. She had a rough start. She wanted to help every kid out there.”

Brooks said he gave $500,000 to the hospital anonymously, which he said was his custom when giving to charities. The singer said he, his family and the hospital wanted to keep things quiet until a ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the center.

He was eventually shown architectural drawings of a proposed center bearing his mother’s name.

But his mother’s name was never attached to anything.

By March 2009, he’d asked the hospital to refund his money or give it to another charity. In September 2009, Brooks sued.

“I thought this was going to be mom’s chance to bring a women’s center to my hometown,” Brooks testified.

Brooks’ accountant, Cheryl Harris, testified Friday that she wasn’t aware of any conditions on Brooks’ donation. Asked by Integris lawyer Terry Thomas how she believed the money would be used, she said, “He didn’t receive anything physical.”

Singers back together for pre-Super Bowl show

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Steven Tyler and Carrie Underwood are teaming up for a TV special the night before the Super Bowl.

“CMT Crossroads: Steven Tyler & Carrie Underwood Live from the Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam” will air Feb. 4.

The Aerosmith frontman and “American Idol” judge teamed with the country music sensation and former “Idol” champion last year during the Academy of Country Music Awards. Their performance of “Undo It” and “Walk This Way” was one of the night’s highlights and a viral video on the Web the next day.

They’ll try to recreate that energy at a private event at the Pepsi Coliseum in Indianapolis.

This is the second year “CMT Crossroads,” which pairs artists from different genres, will broadcast from the Super Bowl Fan Jam.

Danes is also golden with Harvard club

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Golden Globe winner Claire Danes will pick up a pudding pot from Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Theatricals.

The student group named Danes, 32, on Friday as its Woman of the Year. She’ll get a parade and a roast Jan. 26.

Danes won her third Golden Globe on Sunday for her role as CIA agent Carrie Mathison on Showtime’s “Homeland.” She won a Golden Globe, an Emmy and a Screen Actors Guild award previously for HBO’s “Temple Grandin.”

She won her first Golden Globe for “My So Called Life.”

Young’s company sued over hybrid

SAN CARLOS, Calif. — A company founded by Neil Young is facing a lawsuit over a fire in the San Francisco Bay Area that authorities say started in a vintage car the rocker had converted into a hybrid vehicle.

Unigard Insurance Co. sued LincVolt LLC this week, accusing the company of negligence in converting a 1959 Lincoln Continental to run on electricity and a biodiesel-powered generator.

The suit seeks nearly $500,000 that Unigard says it paid to the owner of a building damaged in the 2010 blaze in San Carlos.