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Senate candidate Sherrod Brown has got a friend. Her name is Carole King.

The fabled singer-songwriter stopped in Urbana on Monday in support of the northeast Ohio Democrat who's running against Republican incumbent Mike DeWine this fall.

King, whose 1971 album "Tapestry" has sold more than 10 million copies, briefly spoke to 73 members of the public at a free luncheon at Robert's on Miami.

"People will come and see me because I'm a name," she said before the event. "But I better have something to say."

A resident of rural Idaho for the past 20 years, King touched on such topics as health insurance, and spoke out against mega-farms.

King, 64, was slated to make four days worth of stops across rural Ohio on behalf of Brown, who was not in attendance Monday.

"Give Sherrod Brown your vote," she urged. "And, please God, may it count."